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    The document discusses how girls' self-image tends to deteriorate as they age, moving from confident and carefree in their youth to overly critical and comparing themselves to others. As girls mature, their clothing goes from self-expression to something that invites shaming. Small flaws they once ignored become major focuses. Their expectations for relationships, popularity and life in general become unrealistic. Ultimately, the document argues that nothing has really changed about the girls themselves - they are still deserving of love and acceptance as children, and should avoid letting outside influences chip away at their self-worth.

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    The document discusses how girls' self-image tends to deteriorate as they age, moving from confident and carefree in their youth to overly critical and comparing themselves to others. As girls mature, their clothing goes from self-expression to something that invites shaming. Small flaws they once ignored become major focuses. Their expectations for relationships, popularity and life in general become unrealistic. Ultimately, the document argues that nothing has really changed about the girls themselves - they are still deserving of love and acceptance as children, and should avoid letting outside influences chip away at their self-worth.

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    Moving Backwards

    By: Emma Shipley

    Sometimes I swear we age backwards; I am not talking about physically like in the

    movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” but emotionally. Girls enter this world believing

    they are beautiful and rarely tend to question it. Then before we know it, we have a completely

    different set image that never seems to be good enough, so what changed?

    We go from being proud of ourselves for finally understanding long division to being

    disappointed we don’t have as high of a GPA as the guy sitting next to us. Clothing changes

    from a way to express our favorite things to something that gets shamed. The mud on our faces

    was never questioned, but now every tiny imperfection needs to be hidden. We never paid

    attention to the tiny red spots on older teenagers' foreheads, but when they are on our own, we

    consider it a conspicuous mountain. Expectations for our love was Prince Charming, now it’s the

    boy that replies to our texts before 11pm. Our minds are flooded with new fears that aren’t just

    monsters anymore, but our own close friends spreading rumors. Gossiping was which couple

    was dating on the playground, not who slept with whose boyfriend. Watching Video Stars just to

    enjoy seeing others having fun, turned into obsessing over Instagram highlighted reels and

    comparing all the reasons why our lives are worse.

    We believed we were pretty. We loved all the things that make us authentic and not what

    made us blend in. Walking into crowded rooms we weren't comparing our bodies or wondering

    what we could do to make ourselves look better. Our smiles weren't ever closed to hide our teeth;

    they were as wide as we were happy. We were ourselves and that was enough at the time, what

    changed?
    The answer might be initially hard to pinpoint, but if you glance just beyond the surface,

    it becomes indisputable it was nothing. Nothing actually changed, that same little girl is still a

    large part of who we all are, and she would still simply believe she was enough. Instead of

    tending to this growing love of ourselves, most of us chip away pieces day by day. Comparing

    ourselves to unrealistic expectations and body images that shouldn’t be promoted in the first

    place. The only thing that should matter in this world in regard to our self-worth is us because

    why can our younger selves grasp this, and we can’t. There are many factors with growing up

    that is out of our control, but there is still so much we can. We still deserve to be proud of

    ourselves for every small accomplishment. Our expectations should still be for a prince, for the

    love that we truly deserve. We should still view ourselves in the same lens that the little girl did.

    As we age, things should be getting better not worse. Nothing has changed, we are still the same

    person and should still love ourselves just as much.

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